Heidelberg

Last weekend we headed over to Heidelberg for a long weekend.  We lived over in that area ages ago (before kids).  Pat was participating in a triathlon in the area (upcoming post on that) and we wanted to show the kids some of the cool stuff around there.

We took them to Heidelberg Castle which they thought was pretty cool.

"But there is too much walking."

Until he got to the top and saw the great views.

View of the altstadt (old city) from the castle.

Heidelberg castle from the alte bruecke (old bridge).

They love staying in hotels (really vacation apartments for us since a family of six can't fit in a hotel room).  They love them so much that sometimes we can't get them to leave to do fun stuff.  We finally forced them out to get pizza.

While out and about getting Pat's triathlon stuff ready we stumbled upon a little tierpark (animal park) in the country.  It was mainly birds and deer but they loved it.